Using a different system for GURPS: Reign of Steel

[Shades of Eternity]

ever pull a random book and go ook ook and then realize it will take too much work to run and sadly put it back (for now)? I just had this experience with GURPS: Reign of Steel. Any ideas for a more simplified system?

GURPS Reign of Steel - Wikipedia

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[Fenris-77]

Well, it's some thinly disguised Terminator action, but that doesn't actually help as that isn't a super common RPG conceit. I might look into a Cyberpunk setting that handles combat ok, depending on excatly what kind of game you wanted to run. If you wanted something where the humans have to become more machine to fight the war but at the risk of their humanity maybe something like Transhuman Space? IDK...

 

[TwiceBorn2]

Or you can wait for the release of the Terminator RPG and mash them up if you're not fully satisfied with either of them.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

hmm new terminator game you say?

...I am intrigued.

I might add a dollop of Captain Power and the soldiers of the future just so the PCs have a fighting chance.

 

[MGibster]

ever pull a random book and go ook ook and then realize it will take too much work to run and sadly put it back (for now)? I just had this experience with GURPS: Reign of Steel. Any ideas for a more simplified system?

GURPS Reign of Steel - Wikipedia

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Oh, wow. I recently had the same thought regarding Living Steel. Both Living Steel and Reign of Steel are games I used to see for sale but never even perused to see what they were all about. And man, after reading your link I regret never picking it up just as much as I regret not picking up Living Steel because they both seem pretty dope. Do young people still say dope?

I'd run both using Savage Worlds. Savage Worlds is pretty darned easy to adapt to a wide variety of action oriented RPGs.

 

[TwiceBorn2]

hmm new terminator game you say?

...I am intrigued.

I might add a dollop of Captain Power and the soldiers of the future just so the PCs have a fighting chance.

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[GMMichael]

ever pull a random book and go ook ook and then realize it will take too much work to run and sadly put it back (for now)? I just had this experience with GURPS: Reign of Steel. Any ideas for a more simplified system?

I can't say that I go "ook ook" very often, but I have a copy of Numenera on the shelf, in case I'm looking for a simplified sci-fantasy game.

 

[MattW]

ever pull a random book and go ook ook and then realize it will take too much work to run and sadly put it back (for now)? I just had this experience with GURPS: Reign of Steel. Any ideas for a more simplified system?

Would your players be Robots, or Humans in the Resistance, or bio/cyber-enhanced servants of the AIs?

White Wolf's "Aberrant" might work as a toolbox for the setting. It's not QUITE a superhero rules system and can easily be adapted to various styles of play.